The Tragedy of King Lear

Edmund. How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to
1985loyalty, something fears me to think of.

Duke of Cornwall. I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil
disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set
awork by a reproveable badness in himself.

Edmund. How malicious is my fortune that I must repent to be just!
1990This is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an
intelligent party to the advantages of France. O heavens! that
this treason were not- or not I the detector!